HARRISBURG, Feb. 5 -- R. Sean Buckman, Chairman of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association (PHCA) Board of Directors, issued the following statement in response to Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed 2019-20 General Fund budget, which once again provides no additional Medicaid funding for nursing facility care during Wolf's first five years in office:
"A Governor's budget is first and foremost a statement of a Governor's policy priorities. For the fifth straight year, the Governor proposed flat funding for long-term nursing facility care. Make no mistake about it: flat funding is a cut to our sector.
"It is abundantly clear that Pennsylvania's oldest and most frail seniors and disabled citizens are not his priority. This lack of investment in senio...